It wouldn’t be summer without an abundance of zucchini – at least around here. Zucchini is so easy to grow and it seems like there is always a surplus once the plants mature. I am always looking for the best zucchini recipes.

The years we haven’t grown zucchini it was easy to come by. Family and friends with gardens are always eager to give some zucchini away.

I heard a rumor several years ago about how there is a town with an abundance of zucchini every year. If you drive to the store, you don’t want to leave your car unattended with the windows down – otherwise, you’ll come back to a pile of zucchini in your car!

I don’t ever like the produce from our garden to go to waste. Especially zucchini’s. They are so good! So each year, I do a search to find the best zucchini recipes to make. I like a variety of flavors when I make the recipes too.

One of my favorite things to do with zucchini is to spiralize it and use it in place of noodles for spaghetti or anything else we’d be putting noodles in. I don’t cook the zucchini noodles before using them, but instead, let it sit with sauce on it for a few minutes before eating. The sauce softens up the noodles enough that they are very similar to spaghetti noodles.

This is pretty close to the spiralizer that we have. I bought it when spiralizers first started coming onto the market and the one I bought is no longer available. I love our spiralizer! It is so easy to make noodles out of zucchini. My only complaint about it is that it takes up so much space, since I don’t use it everyday. It does get a lot of use during the summer and then sporadically the rest of the year. If you don’t have a spiralizer yet, grab one here!

We came up with a delicious stuffed zucchini recipe years ago. I will have to get around to writing out the directions for making it and posting it. In the meantime, enjoy the best zucchini recipes below.

Oven Baked Zucchini Chips

These Oven Baked Zucchini Chips via Skinny MS look really good. Chips are our junk food of choice in my house. We like trying all the different kinds of vegetable chips. I know we’ve had some sort of zucchini chips before that we all liked and I think these chips would be a winner.

Loaded Hasselback Zucchini

These Loaded Hasselback Zucchini are a bit different than the ones above. These look really good too. These would be a great side dish.

Vegetarian Zucchini Lasagna Spirals

I’ve tried using zucchini as noodles in lasagna, but I cut them too thick and it wasn’t as good as it could have been. These Vegetarian Zucchini Lasagna Spirals are very intrigueing. I love how they spiraled the zucchini.

Zucchini Bread

I have made this recipe a TON of times. I’ve been making it for probably about the past 10 years. It’s really good and my kiddos all love it. I’ve given this as gifts as well as included this recipe in homemade recipe books that have been put together for family. Mom’s Zucchini Bread via All Recipes

Parmesan Zucchini Tots

Zucchini Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

We don’t eat a lot of cookies in my house, but next time my kids ask to bake some and we have some extra zucchini, we are trying these ones! Zucchini Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies via Cooking Classy Cooking Classy has so many delicious recipes and I’m sure these ones taste as good as the other ones I’ve made from her site.

I hope you agree that these are some of the best zucchini recipes around!